Data Management for Augmented Reality Applications

Abstract

A critical issue of AugmentedReality applications is the large quantity of data, which must be managed in a distributed system. This data must be reliably delivered to services that provide user access on that data. The handled data must be in a consistent state allover the system.

Database systems can be used for parts of the management of data to guarantee persistence and efficient handling.

This thesis deals with data management for distributed AugmentedReality systems. The main contribution of this thesis is a novel approach of dynamic services, that give the user transparent access to all necessary data. The developed design has prototypically been implemented and tested within the ProjectArchie application. ProjectArchie states a project to support architectural modeling by AugmentedReality.
By further development a set of general usable services can be realized that allows to use AugmentedReality in new areas.

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A critical issue of AugmentedReality applications is the large quantity of data, which must be managed in a distributed system. This data must be reliably delivered to services that provide user access on that data. The handled data must be in a consistent state allover the system. Database systems can be used for parts of the management of data to guarantee persistence and efficient handling. This thesis deals with data management for distributed AugmentedReality systems. The main contribution of this thesis is a novel approach of dynamic services, that give the user transparent access to all necessary data. The developed design has prototypically been implemented and tested within the ProjectArchie application. ProjectArchie states a project to support architectural modeling by AugmentedReality. By further development a set of general usable services can be realized that allows to use AugmentedReality in new areas.